AERIAL WARFARE
FRENCH AVIATOR'S DARING ■ ■ FEAT A LUCKY ESCAPE (Eec. August 17, 7.30 p.m.) ' , Paris, August 17, morning. n °h Gators, Lieutenant Cesari and Corp iral Pruusommeau," left Verdun on Friday .evening on separate; aeroplanes and- reconnoitred tile German fortress of Mctz. Lieutenant Cesari, who was flying at aheight- of three thousand yards, and the ccrpbnil at 2500 yards, were subjected 'to a ceaseless rain of shots. < Lieutenant Cesari's engine stopped at a critical moment, and he decided not to lo3e his life for nothing. Ho volplaned and launched a bomb over the fort, and then the engine started again. Meanwhile the corporal had launched a pro. iectile, but was unable to 'state the effect. Both aviators got . back safely." RUSSIANS BRING DOWN A GERMAN MACHINE. " St. Petersburg, August IG. A German aeroplane, which was reconndi'trinjj a Russian position in the Suwalki Government, Russian ■, Poland, eastward from Koiiigsberg, was brought down, and the four aviators were killed.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2231, 18 August 1914, Page 5
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